Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.